Python –检查Mac是否正在播放音乐

Question

I'm trying to write a simple python script to stop the music being played by a Mac. I found some code that emulates the media buttons from the accepted answer here: emulate media key press on Mac .

Triggering the play/pause button works perfectly, but I only want to do so if there is music currently playing. Otherwise it turns on the music (the opposite of what I'm trying to do. Is there any way to get this information from the system?

I need to check if music was actually playing beforehand so I can know whether to resume it later.

Answer 1

If your use case is macOS specific, you can call AppleScript via Python:

import subprocess
subprocess.call(['osascript', '-e', 'tell application "iTunes" to pause'])